Sometimes we're always real same-same

by Mattox Roesch

Troubled Cesar leaves his gangbanging life behindin Los Angeles to help his mother reconnect withher estranged family in rural Alaska, where shehopes they both can carve out a fresh start. WhenCesar arrives, he meets his college dropout cousin,Go-Boy, who believes he's part of a good worldconspiracy and who bets Cesar he will stay inAlaska for a year.Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same is theaccount of two unlikely cousins and their paralleljourneys through guilt and loneliness into thebonds of friendship. Set in a location like no other,the setting inevitably becomes its own character,pushing and pulling against Cesar and Go-boy asthey struggle with the quirky challenges of life inUnalakleet, Alaska. With his absent father and anolder brother in prison for a gang murder, Cesaris badly in need of a male role-model and theacceptance of friends and family.In his insightful and thoroughly engaging debut,Mattox Roesch has created a fresh, appealingvoice along with a wonderful cast of cha